On June 21, 2025 the State Haal will only be open starting 1 p.m.
The reading rooms on Heldenplatz and the reading rooms of the collections are closed on public holidays. This also applies to Thursday, June 19 (Corpus Christi).
Regular opening hours apply in the museums; in addition, all museums are open on Whit Monday.
The deposit of so-called “library copies” continues to serve a cultural need today. The aim of this law is to ensure the complete documentation, as far as possible, of published work in Austria. A legal deposit regulation for the Austrian National Library (formerly the Court Library) has demonstrably existed since 1569.
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